Especially in their campy 1960’s TV incarnation, Batman and Robin’s ace-in-the-hole for those extra-dicey predicaments perpetrated by some villainous celebrity adversary was the guts and guile of their prim and proper “set-up man” Alfred.

In the original blueprint for Brad Stevens’s 2017-18 squad, the Caped Crusaders were to be portrayed by Kyrie and Gordon – Hayward’s baby-face does resemble Burt Ward’s, and I doubt many would be surprised to learn that Adam West secretly believed the Earth was flat.

While the Producers continue rotating through a series of promising stand-ins for “Robin” in the early going, their Al-ford keeps coming through.

Holy Horford, Batman!

A Fourth Quarter on a Second Night

Boston entered Q4 with a 7-point edge. The teams played even (13-13) through eight trips up and down the floor. But over the next half-dozen possessions, Atlanta laid a 10-4 run on the C’s, briefly capturing the lead.

From that point, the Hawks were able to register neither back-to-back conversions nor back-to-back stops. The Celtics won the last eight possessions 11-9.

Incidentally, both teams were playing the second night of a back-to-back, the sixth time that has occurred in 21 days. (The teams shot a combined 58% from the field in Q2.)